On the 21st October, 1994 the Congress of the United States ratified the UN Convention Against Torture, requiring us to prosecute or extradite torturers. On that day, that convention became what our Constitution calls "the Supreme Law of the land". Yet four years after Barack Obama swore an oath to uphold that constitution, he has not "take[n] care that these Laws be faithfully executed". Indeed his (then) Director of the CIA Leon Panetta promised that no one in the CIA would be prosecuted for these crimes.

President Obama ran on a promise of "change". I think that would be a very good idea.